Lesson plan 2 of 12

Words. Name things.

On the board: "a game with a name you made up". Words in code live between quotes. gameTitle is a word box, and the game shows whatever you put in it.

0 min: The code on the board

Put the class code on the projector (Teach, then Projector). Children open codeitlearn.com/join, type the code and a first name. Five minutes, no accounts.

5 min: Say a game

Write on the board: "a game with a name you made up". Everyone types it, or their own version of it, on Build and presses Build it. Walk the room. By minute ten every child has a game playing.

12 min: The projector fills

Open the projector. Tiles appear as games are published. Press one; it plays on the big screen. Two minutes of this is the reward for the room and the reason the next part works.

15 min: The power: Words

Everyone opens Powers and presses Words. Read the first line aloud: "Words in code live between quotes. gameTitle is a word box, and the game shows whatever you put in it." Step one changes one line and runs it; step two changes it again; the check is them writing it with the highlight gone. Three minutes for most, ten for some.

30 min: Build with it

Back to Build, with the power switched on in their game. Ask for a new sentence that uses it: a game with a name you made up. Publish. The projector shows the new ones.

40 min: Show two

Press two tiles on the projector. Ask each child what they changed. The sentence they say back is the assessment.

What to look for

Quotes. A child who deletes a quote mark sees the game break and fix: that is the lesson.

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Before the lesson

Make a class on CodeIt and put its code on the projector. Children join at codeitlearn.com/join with the code and a first name. Classes are free.